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            "value": "\n          <p>Yesterday, I wanted to make a breaking change to my <a href=\"\/daily\/2023\/03\/04\/why-i-built-a-tool-to-generate-configuration-files\">build-configs project<\/a> - changing the default database credentials that are used by Docker Compose.<\/p>\n\n<p>As I have several projects based on generated files by the tool, changing the values could cause issues in those projects in the future and this is something that I wanted to avoid.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"what-did-i-do%3F\">What did I do?<\/h2>\n\n<p>To avoid this issue and needing to update all of my projects at once, I added a feature flag to the <code>build.yaml<\/code> file so I can opt-in to this feature on a per-project basis.<\/p>\n\n<p>If a project, like my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/opdavies\/docker-example-drupal\">Drupal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/opdavies\/docker-example-drupal-localgov\">LocalGov Drupal<\/a> Docker examples, are opted in, its files will get the new credentials. If not, it will continue to use the original ones.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/opdavies\/docker-example-drupal\/commit\/3f496168d5c32f9706970519023b431ee02c4b19\">In this commit<\/a>, you'll see where I enabled the feature flag and committed the resulting change.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"what-does-this-achieve%3F\">What does this achieve?<\/h2>\n\n<p>I can continue to work on existing projects without them breaking, and migrate projects one at a time by using the feature flag instead of needing to do them all once.<\/p>\n\n<p>Once all active projects have been migrated or completed, the feature flag can be removed and I can refactor and simplify the code - removing the feature flag and the legacy values.<\/p>\n\n        ",
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